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LAUSD layoffs to hurt everyone

Layoffs prompted by declining enrollment and a crippling budget deficit would thin the ranks of Los Angeles Unified’s educators by 15 percent, leaving few schools unscathed by the financial crisis, according to district documents. Connie Llanos in the Daily News.

The breakdown of layoff notices at 952 schools shows that roughly two-thirds of them would lose at least one educator when classes start in the fall.

In the San Fernando Valley, 193 of the 287 schools listed would lose certificated positions – primarily teachers, but also librarians, counselors and nurses. Two dozen of those schools could lose one-fourth of their staffs.